A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The virginity disease.
- Was Dr. Asperger a Nazi?
- Medicines of the 18th century.
- The fatal fashions of the Georgians.
- The forgotten world of mourning jewelry.
- The science of Little House on the Prairie.
- NYC’s great “rocking chair riots” of 1901.
- CDC says a serious birth defect is on the rise.
- Martin Luther King and the History of Sexuality.
- Photographs of child laborers in the early 20th century.
- Smile or die: A short history of positive thinking in America.
- Lost erotica of Spain reveals an overlooked feminist history.
- Prominent medieval scholar’s critique of feminism sparks uproar.
- Remembering the Furies Collective, a 1970s lesbian feminist separatist group.